On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 07:43:16AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Aha -- so you are using pipewire's pulseaudio emulation? > > Yes. > > > Search engineering (hah) turns up some noises like this [1] which at > > least suggest to tinker with sandbox settings. They might have painted > > themselves again into a corner by not allowing some processes to see > > some paths in the file system. Granted, this is just a thin thing to > > go by, sorry. > > I have no idea what sandbox settings you're referring to. > How/where can I find those to "tinker" with?
Mozilla sandboxes [1] its subprocesses in very baroque and fanciful ways (not saying it shouldn't -- rather musing we shouldn't be here at all). The sandbox keeps subprocesses from "seeing" things in the file system [2], thus also unable to load shared objects. But ISTR that audio subprocesses are allowed more as of late (i only half-know those things from banging my head against apulse: take with two grains of salt). That said, I thin Max's observation elsewhere in this thread is far more relevant than mine. Some (perhaps non-free) codec might be missing. Cheers [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox [1a] also: about:config -> security.sandbox.* [2] and system calls and things -- t
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